Journal

There's a particular kind of happiness that arrives with an email from a cruise company. Subject line: your booking confirmation. Itinerary, travel documents, tickets — all attached. It never gets old. This one's a double first. Our first cruise booked through Iglu, and our first time sailing with Azamara. In the early years of retirement we threw ourselves into cruising with considerable enthusiasm — and why wouldn't you? The world delivered to your door, more or less, from

There's a particular kind of excitement that comes with a trip you've been circling for a while. Sorrento has been on the list ever since we pulled into Naples on a cruise a few years back, squinted at the coastline and thought — we need to come back properly. Well, properly starts Monday. My wife and I fly into Naples — which feels like diving straight into the deep end, Naples being Naples — before a private transfer takes us along the coast to Sorrento for a week. First ti

Discover what it’s really like to spend weeks at a time in a second home abroad. Honest reflections on life, routines, and quiet moments in Marmaris, Turkey.

A 2024 update for my blog and travel plans.

A trip to London this weekend gave me the opportunity to test out my latest purchase the Fujifilm X-Pro1. I purchased this camera a few weeks ago because it was a good price and I had heard such great things about the filmic quality of the images from the first version of Fuji’s x-Trans sensor. This was my first real trip since I visited Turkey in October 2020 and it was great to be out and about somewhere other than the usual streets I’ve been treading for several months. Th